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Playoff Roundup: We Warmed Up For The 19th
• We had to run out to see In Her Shoes in the ninth inning of the Astros-Braves game yesterday. Brad Ausmus was coming up, so we knew we wouldn't miss anything. Anybody catch what happened? • Our favorite part of the game is that if the game went so long that Roger Clemens wouldn't have been able...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: "We've got a couple of sleeper picks at quarterback," you said. "You can't go wrong with Michael Vick and Tim Rattay," you said. "You can thank us later," you said. I'd like to thank you now. What's your...
NFL Roundup: Davenport Craps Out
• After intercepting an Anthony Wright pass in the end zone, Lions defensive back Dre Bly honored injured Packers running back Najeh Davenport by doing a spitting-image impersonation of him. Which was nice, we thought. • After yesterday, we'll just say that we're going to really enjoy watching Terr...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while boarding up the house to keep out the undead ... • ALDS: Game 4: Yankees force Game 5 in Los Angeles tonight, Giambi exchanges steroids for caffeine. • NLDS, Game 4: Chris Burke — not from "Life Goes On," so stop asking — ends epic 18-inning duel over Braves, launches Astros in...
Week in Deadspin: Thanks, Kyle!
• Kyle Orton and his buddies Jack and Daniel give us enough traffic that we are currently sunbathing on a beach in Boise. It's nice here. Orton says he's sorry, by the way. No need, Kyle! • Jesus don't want Josh McCown for a sunbeam. He would like Cheetos to replenish themselves, however. • Is Cha...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as mice gather in your attic for their annual convention ... • College FB: Syracuse at Connecticut. Big East showdown in which you'll meet your next Jets quarterback, UConn's Matt Bonislawski. [ESPN2] • ALDS, Game 3: White Sox at Red Sox. ChiSox are gonna party like it's 1917. [ESPN2] ...
Live Blog: White Sox vs. Red Sox, Game 3
Barring rainstorms on the East Coast that push everything a few days back, this should be, unless the ALCS goes seven games and the NLCS goes six, the last afternoon weekday playoff game, which means the last live blog, which means we're sure you're just devastated. But this is almost certainly th...
Leftovers: Gagne Rips Those Filthy Rich Jerks
• Gagne, speaking from his luxury yacht, rips Dodgers for being cheap. [MSN Sports Filter] • End of a large, gangly, not-so-bright era: Lakers put Divac on waivers. [Show Time] • Niners trade Jamie Winborn to Jaguars, the key move that will have both teams Super Bowl Bound. [49ers News]...
Hey, Buddy, Can You Spare An ESPNer A Quarter?
Now, we're just asking here, tossing something in the wind, see if it sticks, if you don't mind a little metaphor mixing ... but anybody else out there hear about a serious payroll snafu that has left a good percentage of ESPN's New York City employees without their direct deposits and without any...
Uh, Who Exactly IS This Guy? Like, Really?
About a million years from now, when aliens discover our dark, burned-out husk of a planet and start digging around for clues to our long-dead civilization, we hope that the Brandon Lang saga is not the first thing they come across. Oh Christ, we hope not. Our gambling-addicted sister Oddjack del...
Buying T.O.'s Discarded Junk (For Charity!)
This man's name is Bob Lipinski, and he's an "entrepreneur" from South Jersey. (cough-mob-cough) And he is now the proud owner of Terrell Owens' NFC Championship ring from last year. He won an auction for the ring that Owens held to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina. We've brought up our suspic...
ESPN Proceeding With World Domination Plans
Big huge story in Business Week this week looking at the challenges facing ESPN Networks and ABC Sports president George Bodenheimer as the network looks for more opportunities to grow. (Because that's what ESPN needs: To be bigger.) The story is a fascinating look at a company — and a leader — th...
Blogdome: The Mystery Of Oklahoma
• What really happened with that suicide at the Oklahoma game last week? The truth is scarier than people are letting on. [Counterterrorism Blog] (via Off Wing Opinion) • Here's the thing about sports hernias: They're not real. [Taylor Bunts] • Rod Thorn is much smarter than you give him credit for....
Blogdom's Best: Arizona Diamondbacks
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chronicling the ins-and-outs of everything. Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding b...
Tony Parker: The Only Cool Spur (And Frenchman, Actually)
Great NBA blog FreeDarko.com — Darko's current mood is "enraged," by the way — has made a pretty amazing find: A rap song featuring Fabolous, Spurs point guard Tony Parker and some French rapper named Booba. This is pretty fantastic for several reasons — you can download the song here — not least ...
Just In: Canadians Like Hockey More Than Americans
The first batch of ratings for the NHL's return have come out, and whether the news is good or not depends on, well, how you pronounced the word "about." If you're Canadian, man, did you watch yourself some hockey; 2.1 million Canadians watched Ottawa's win over Toronto, good enough for the third-...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: The George Foreman Grill, now, does that really drain the grease as advertised? How many burgers can you fit on there? • 2 p.m. MLB analyst Jeff Brantley: Forget pitching. Please analyze that magical 1993...
Randy Johnson, KILLER ROBOT
For those of you who haven't met him yet, Korean cartoonist Choi Hoon draws the most hysterical, inexplicable cartoons on the Web. Hoon, who says baseball is "the best sport of all" because "it has the most organized and systematic rules" (which is as good an explanation as we can come up with), m...
Quite Frankly ... There's No One Watching Your Show
Well, "Quite Frankly With Stephen A. Smith" just turned two months old so we thought we'd check in and see how the much-hyped show was doing in the ratings....
The Rocky Horror O.J. Show
Reports are leaking in regarding O.J. Simpson's visit to NecroComicon, the horror convention in Los Angeles which was held last weekend. As reported on sites such as Mark Evanier's POV Online, the whole thing was kind of a bust, with media types outnumbering O.J. fans about 10-to-1. Evidently the...